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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Oh wow. So they actually had to explain away a limitation of makeup from when the TOS was filmed? Couldn't they just make them look like the new version, and pretend that's how they looked in TOS? Did they really need to do this?
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It's because Star Trek takes itself too seriously and has to have a scientific explanation for everything. They did briefly let it go as a joke following a DS9 episode where they did a Forrest Gump effect thing with TOS. Everyone was wondering why the Klingons looked so different and Worf just grumpily said they didn't talk about it with outsiders. I thought that was funny and a good way to leave it, but no, Enterprise had to come up with some technobabble explanation.
They did a similar thing with a TNG episode with an intelligent design/Chariot of the Gods explanation that some humanoid alien species seeded life in the Universe and that's why every alien is basically just a human with different ears or foreheads. The truth is they didn't have the time/money/creativity to come up with cool aliens.
I had a very love/hate relationship with Star Trek. When I was really little I thought it was cool that Spock had green blood and the whole idea of him being an alien. Then when TNG came out I loved the idea of being able to zoom all around to different planets and such, but was frustrated as when they went "Where no one had gone before" they just ran into human-like people with human-like problems that the perfect Federation (aka Americans) solved.